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Behind the Scenes of a Writers' Room
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A writer describes the experience of working in a writers' room in the 90s, where scripts were written on legal pads and typed up by a team of typists. He shares an anecdote about being mistaken for a typist by new colleagues because he didn't go to college and was working as a standup comic.
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